Posts I have been intending to write for awhile now, and may or not get to:
So apparently it's National Book Day? Or at least World Book Day in the UK. Good enough excuse for one of them question meme things, this one via![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mrissa.
The book I'm reading: Warren Ellis's Ellisian noir Crooked Little Vein, on loan from semilocal J--. Roger Zelazny, Collected Stories v.5: Nine Black Doves. I've had a bookmark in the front of Kushner & Sherman's The Fall of the Kings for months now. I suppose I can be said to have given up ontruepenny's Corambis since it's been six months since I touched it. (Too much all at once; binged on the first three volumes and then my brain said "okay done now" around page 50.)
Books I'm writing: um. The last time I looked at "Junkyard Dog" I thought it might actually be a YA novel, or a novella with a YA protagonist. And I don't think "One Only" is a novel but there's one (at least) in that universe. Etc.
The book I love the most: gah. If you held a gun to my head I'd say Heat of Fusion And Other Stories by John M. Ford, at least today.
The last book I received as a gift: Vancouver Special by Charles Demers, an Xmas gift from![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
uilos.
The last book I gave as a gift: Clark Ashton Smith's Red World of Polaris, touilos for Xmas. She had very nice things to say about the quality of the book. The prose contained within seems to have been, um, for Smith completists.
The nearest book: A large paperback edition of Hesiod (Theogony, Works and Days, Shield), because the Misc shelf (top to bottom: poetry, cooking, Greeks + drama, more drama, lit-crit / writing advice / The Guide To Getting It On, oversized art books) is in the office behind me. If you go with "book that's not shelved," it's Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds, which I picked up along with The Third Policeman a few weeks ago.
The book I want someone else to please write for me: I'm still looking for something like "A History of Vancouver, 1960-2010." The Demers book was close but not quite; it's more focused on contemporary Vancouver and only incidentally touches on how it got that way.
Links, visual. Videos or comics or images.
The Lumarca: a short film of "a low-cost visualization project." Gorgeous.
This record player reads tree rings instead of LPs.
Darkness: "My roommate is dark... Sometimes you meet people like that, they have one adjective that fits them like a glove."
Old school screensaver.
Some self-assembly required.
- Medialog, Ralph Fiennes's Coriolanus
- Medialog, Flann O'Brian's The Third Policeman
- Medialog?, Burn Notice S1 vs Leverage S1
- What I have been and will soon be up to
- On the uselessness of role-playing books
- On having a close friend again (mostly by accident, as these things tend to be), and some implications thereof
- And a month and a half of linkspam, probably broken up among several posts.
So apparently it's National Book Day? Or at least World Book Day in the UK. Good enough excuse for one of them question meme things, this one via
mrissa.The book I'm reading: Warren Ellis's Ellisian noir Crooked Little Vein, on loan from semilocal J--. Roger Zelazny, Collected Stories v.5: Nine Black Doves. I've had a bookmark in the front of Kushner & Sherman's The Fall of the Kings for months now. I suppose I can be said to have given up on
truepenny's Corambis since it's been six months since I touched it. (Too much all at once; binged on the first three volumes and then my brain said "okay done now" around page 50.)Books I'm writing: um. The last time I looked at "Junkyard Dog" I thought it might actually be a YA novel, or a novella with a YA protagonist. And I don't think "One Only" is a novel but there's one (at least) in that universe. Etc.
The book I love the most: gah. If you held a gun to my head I'd say Heat of Fusion And Other Stories by John M. Ford, at least today.
The last book I received as a gift: Vancouver Special by Charles Demers, an Xmas gift from
uilos.The last book I gave as a gift: Clark Ashton Smith's Red World of Polaris, to
uilos for Xmas. She had very nice things to say about the quality of the book. The prose contained within seems to have been, um, for Smith completists.The nearest book: A large paperback edition of Hesiod (Theogony, Works and Days, Shield), because the Misc shelf (top to bottom: poetry, cooking, Greeks + drama, more drama, lit-crit / writing advice / The Guide To Getting It On, oversized art books) is in the office behind me. If you go with "book that's not shelved," it's Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds, which I picked up along with The Third Policeman a few weeks ago.
The book I want someone else to please write for me: I'm still looking for something like "A History of Vancouver, 1960-2010." The Demers book was close but not quite; it's more focused on contemporary Vancouver and only incidentally touches on how it got that way.
Links, visual. Videos or comics or images.
The Lumarca: a short film of "a low-cost visualization project." Gorgeous.
This record player reads tree rings instead of LPs.
Darkness: "My roommate is dark... Sometimes you meet people like that, they have one adjective that fits them like a glove."
Old school screensaver.
Some self-assembly required.
